Q Schooling

John Feinstein's latest, Tales from Q School: Inside Golf's Fifth Major, finds the noted sportswriter in characteristic investigative mode. The PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament ( Q School ) is a grueling annual event in which both aspiring and erstwhile pro golfers compete for precious few available slots on the PGA Tour. Feinstein covers the 2005 Q School in a narrative rich with round-by-round...

Personal story

In Caddy for Life: The Bruce Edwards Story, all-world sportswriter John Feinstein offers a tribute to pro caddy Bruce Edwards. Completed before Edwards' recent death from Lou Gehrig's disease, the book captures his easy persona and lifelong love of the game, focusing in particular on his 25-year association with Tom Watson, who, through the late '70s and early '80s, was probably golf's finest...

A new angle on a grand old game

Perhaps for the first time in its centuries-long history, golf has become, well, sexy. The recent exploits of Tiger Woods and Annika Sorenstam have brought the subtly challenging, grand old game into broader focus for American sports fans. Woods' otherworldly abilities on the green, along with his celebrity status, have boosted golf's TV ratings. Small wonder, then, that spring and summer have...

Get in the swing of it The Masters golf tournament just isn't fair . . . to its viewers on television. Picture the typical rabid golfer who lives in the Northeast or Midwest. It's April. He or she has been sitting around all winter, wearing out the living room carpet with putting practice. Then the Masters, the first major golf tournament of the season, appears on television. And everything is...